Winter Blues by Mags

Hi Folks

Mags here to share a little inspiration for our current challenge which is - Winter Blues.

Our sponsor this month is LEJ Designs and the winner will receive 4 free digi images.

Here is my inspiration project using a great image from our sponsor.

The image was coloured with promarkers and matted onto blue cardstock.  I added some liquid pearls around the image to add some interest.  The blue background paper was in my stash and I added an embossed panel using my snowflakes embossing folder.  The snowflake is a spellbinders die and I glittered it up for added sparkle.  A couple of little trees and some ribbon finished the card.

You have until the end of the month to link up your entries and look out for more inspiration from the design team throughout the rest of the month.  Follow the link here to enter the challenge.

Bye for now

Mags (magagiscraftybits.blogspot.co.uk)

xx

Winter Blues - by Claire

Hi Everyone

It's my turn , Claire, to share a project today for the current challenge - Winter Blues!

This month we are sponsored by LEJ Designs who are offering 4 digis to the winner!

So here is my project created with an image from our sponsor:

I created my card by starting with the background using stamps by Lindsay Mason stamped in cocoa memento ink and coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils and watercoloured.  The sentiment was also stamped in cocoa memento and is from Paperartsy.  Next I printed the snowman out twice, I coloured him using the Inktense pencils also and watercoloured him.  Then I cut one image out whole and the second image I cut out only his hat and scarf and layered them up using foam pads.  I tore a piece of white card to create a hill for him to stand on and inked along it's edge with tumbled glass distress ink for definition.  I also added the fence posts and squirrel to this torn card from the same Lindsay Mason set.  I added silver glamour dust to just about everything that snow might land on using a quickie glue pen.  Then I inked around the edges of the card using the tumbled glass distress again.  To finish I mounted my piece onto navy cardstock before adding to a 6x6 scalloped card blank.

Do pop back throughout the month to see what my teamies have created for the Winter Blues theme!

To link up your own Winter Blues project please click *HERE*

Thanks for stopping by today, feel free to visit my personal blog *HERE* if you fancy a nosey!

Claire x

Winter Blues by Amanda

Hi everyone, Amanda here with my inspiration card for this month's "Winter Blues" challenge.  Our November sponsor is the lovely Lindsay at LEJ Designs, and I chose her pretty Snowy Haven image for my project.

I've gone for a night-time scene and, although it turns out I'm not Thomas Kinkade after all, I think it's quite a cosy looking cottage.  I hope you like it!  For more info about my card, please visit my blog here.

October Challenge Winner, Top 3 & New DT Members

Hi di hi all!

Firstly I have to say we were astounded by the number of entries in our 

October - Anything Goes challenge

Thanks so much for joining us & I hope you can play again this month!

The DT have been visiting your blogs & scratching their heads over who to 

choose as their Top 3 this time! You're such a talented lot!

Anyhoo! 

Mr Random.org had the honour of choosing our winner & he chose

#17 Lozzy who made this little unusual card!

Great work Lozzy,
can you email us at craftingcafe@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Don't forget to collect your winners badge & wear it on your blog!

Now, after much deliberation, we decided to let Mr Random.org choose

 the Top 3 too! It was just way too difficult for us to decide!

So here they are!

# 29 Shell Klieber with her fab frame

# 79 Jennifer Scull with her super little pocket card

#188 Sarah with her sweet CAS card

Well done everyone, give yourselves a big pat on the back

& collect your Top 3 badge below!

Now on to our new DT Members. Thank you to all who applied,

we would have loved to offer everyone a place but sadly we just can't!
Check below to see who we have chosen to join our team this time.

Beverley Cole
Louise Moore
Cheryl Sawyer
Erin Bently
Emma (The Sparkly Fairy)
Janet
Sammy
Amy A
Hath Thi
Samantha K

Congratulations to you all!
Check your in-boxes ladies, you should already have a message from
Nikki, our lovely boss lady! If it's not there check your spam folder
& if it's not there, send us an email to
craftingcafe@gmail.com
to let us know if you'd still like to join us!

Thanks again to all who played along in October &
I hope you can play again this month in our
Winter Blues Challenge

Winter Blues

Hi Marlene here,

This month at The Crafting Cafe we were lucky enough to have digi stamps from LEJ Designs.

I chose this sweet digi called Reindeer Baby, I coloured it with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

then I mounted it onto Co-ordinations Blue card. The papers are from LOTV, I added two Pine Trees, which I used a Marianne Die, then finished it off with LIquid Pearls and ribbon.

Anything Goes + A DT Call

Today sees the 1st of October and a brand new challenge from us.

Thank you to everyone who joined in with our challenge last month.

 It was amazing to see what you all created.

Lots and lots of wonderful altered art going on!

Thanks to those of you who expressed an interest in

 joining our Design Team too!

Our DT call is still live and will run until the 31st October.

We are a very friendly team who get to create with 

digis and themes every month. 

The term would be for 6 months initially and you are asked to create

 at least one project a month. Sound like fun?

All you need to do to be considered for the team is to create a project 

based on the theme for this month and then blog about it..... 

When you link your project up to the challenge,

simply add DT after your name to let us know you are interested.

If you don't want to join the DT, that's fine.... just link up as normal. 

We will still be popping by to leave some crafty love....

So the theme for you all this month is ........

'Anything Goes' 

So over to you, we want to see whatever you want to show us! 

Check out the rules in the side bar! 

Remember, no back linking and only one entry please 

(any second entries won't be counted towards the prize).

This month, we are being sponsored by the fabulous

Stampin Dragon Designs

 As you can see, one lucky winner this month gets 

a £5 voucher to spend in their shop.

Here is the project that I created using one of their digis...

I decided that this month I would make a door sign for my son's room.

 I love anything to do with cute dragons so this digi was just perfect for me!

We would love to see what you create and it would be lovely

 to have some more of  you talented people on our design team!

 Remember, when you link up to the challenge....

just add DT after your name.

Pop back soon to see the brilliant things that the design team have been 

getting up to help inspire you!

Happy Crafting

xx Nikki & The Crafting Cafe Team xx

Driving Dragon?!

'Driving Dragon' by Neil Burley

It's still 'anything goes' month here at the Crafting Cafe sponsored by the fabulous Stamping Dragon Designs - I've chosen the Rupert's Car digistamp for my card.

Since my ProMarkers are currently on loan to my young tutee, I've used my Fashion Design set of Tria Markers to colour in the digistamp. This has the benefit of a preselected palette of colours that work well together. I've added extra colour-on-colour to add the tartan stripes to the hat and the shading. I felt Rupert really needed scarf and goggles, but only the scarf made it :)

For the background I cut out a 4x4" square city map from an old road atlas, coated it twice with Picket Fence Distress Stain to lighten it before adding distress inks in red and brown round the edge - I can't tell you what colours exactly as they are what was left on the applicator foams from previous projects! The sentiment is from Tim Holtz/Stamper's Anonymous Simple Sayings set, stamped in Versacolor Burgundy. Everything is mounted on distressed Foundations Card - Milk from Creative Expressions.

This is such a versatile image - I look forward to finding more uses for it in the future :)